This page was coordinated until February 2008 by Paola Giacché. It is now a Wiki web page, so you may enter information in it. However, please, consult with the Director of the ISLP or with Paola first to make sure that the item you want to enter belongs in this page.

The projects, materials and other efforts of international and national statistical offices and statistical sosieties are listed in alphabetical order by country.

We have divided this webpage into three pages for ease of printing. The three pages are:

A-H on this page. The countries include Canada, France, Germany and Hong Kong SAR.

I-N which includes ISI, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Mauritius, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Nicaragua.

O-Z which includes OECD, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Unesco and United States of America.

Note: For descriptions of formal training programs and learning materials developed by national and international statistical offices go to Training.

Statistics Canada

Examples of students' projects / Exemples de projets d'élèves

Statistics Canada provides prizes, scholarships and awards for student projects and web sites demonstrating the practical application of statistics.

Statistics Canada has established an Education Outreach Program that focuses on bringing pertinent information and technology into classrooms in order to improve the statistical literacy of and to help develop data management skills in young Canadians. This is done through a variety of initiatives including: teacher workshops and summer institutes [some conducted by Statistics Canada employees and some conducted by in-service expert teachers (called teacher champions), secondary school student workshops, having a network of five regional educational representatives who are Statistics Canada employees, providing training for pre-service teachers, creating partnerships and alliances with other organizations, newsletters, publishing a yearly newspaper distributed to over 50,000 School Boards (that is, local education authorities) called “Learning with Canadian Information”, having Statistics Canada employees serve in advisory capacity when curricula are drafted, and allowing employees to provide their expertise to local schools during their regular work hours either assisting in classrooms or as speakers]. Also, Statistics Canada has developed a partnership with textbook publishers that ensures the provision of free statistical data for application in textbooks.

For more information on any of the above or the Education Outreach Program contact Mary Townsend, Coordinator, Education Outreach at mary.townsend@statcan.ca.

Pénombre (in French) “aims at promoting discussion between experts in data production and a variety of ‘consumers’: administrative and political decision-makers, journalists, teachers, and concerned citizens.” (Quoted from a brochure in English given out at ISI Biennial Session in 2001)

This website (in French) describes the activities of the SFdS in terms of statistics education. Also it has links to other websites in French and English.

Website on Importance of Statistics and Careers in Statistics (in French).

Statistix

The German Federal Statistical Office publishes its free online information service “Methods - Approaches - Developments” in English twice a year. The publication provides information about current and planned application of new methods and approaches in official federal statistics. It also describes important international - in particular European - developments in the area of official statistics, the activities of statistical institutions, statistics-related events, and recent statistical and methodological books.

If you are interested in reading this publication regularly, you may join its mailing list for free of charge by sending an email to holger.birkigt@destatis.de.

Hong Kong Statistical Society

in English / in Chinese

Annually, since 1986, the Statistical Project Competition for Secondary School Students is held with the aim of promoting students’ interest in statistics, which in turn helps encourage them to study and understand the proper use of statistics and statistical methods. Many of the Society’s members actively assist in the organization and adjudication of the competition.